The 2024 retreat will be facilitated by:
Chris Haughton
Chris Haughton in his own words:
Hello! I’m a designer and children’s book author.
I have been a freelance illustrator for 18 years. My interest in fair trade drew me into working with a number of non-profit projects and in 2007 I was listed in Time Magazine’s DESIGN 100 for the design work I’ve been doing for People Tree.
Since then I have also begun writing children’s books, my first book A BIT LOSThas been translated into 35 languages and has won awards in 12 countries including the Dutch Picture Book of the Year. OH NO GEORGE! came out in 2012 SHH! We have a plan in 2014, Goodnight Everyone (2016), Don’t Worry, Little Crab (2019), Maybe (2021) and Well Done, Mummy Penguin (2022)
My first app, HAT MONKEY was released in September 2014.
My VR experience LITTLE EARTH was released in 2017.
While living in Nepal in 2010/2011 I co-founded Pecha Kucha Kathmandu with Sujan Chitrakar.
I co-founded NODE a fair trade social business based in Nepal with Akshay Sthapit in 2012. We had an exhibition and collection for the DESIGN MUSEUM in London in 2012, selling 18 limited edition rugs through the Design Museum Shop.
Alexis Deacon
Alexis Deacon graduated from the University of Brighton, where he studied Illustration, in 2001. His picture books include I Am Henry Finch and the award-winning A Place to Call Home. Alexis Deacon was one of Booktrust’s ten Best New Illustrators in 2008. His picture book Beegu was a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Slow Loris is number 69 on Time Magazine’s best children books of all time. Alexis lives in Hastings.
http://alexisdeacon.blogspot.com
Picturecamp is produced and hosted by Jorge Martin (https://www.jorgemartin.org).
Jorge Martín
Jorge is an illustrator,, a storyteller and a scribe. He has lived in Mexico, USA, Germany and London. He now resides in a teeny tiny village in Northern Spain, population: 25. His first book ‘J’sais pas quoi faire’ came out in 2014. Since, he has illustrated another 10 books (of which he has written two) in France, USA and the UK.
Previous teachers have included Kitty Crowther, Chris Haughton, Benji Davies, Yara Kono, Jim Field, Natascha Rosenberg, Ben Newman, Nadia Shireen, Marta Altés, Tor Freeman, Ana Pez and Chris Riddell.
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